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Booze Movies: The 100 Proof Film Guide
Reviews, news, and features from the world of soused cinema
ALCOHOL--THE FABRIC OF FILM HISTORY IS SOGGY WITH THE STUFF. STILL, FILM HISTORIANS HAVE RARELY GIVEN BOOZE ITS DUE. THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT.
Why Booze Movies?
After the Thin Man (1936)
American Beer (2004)
Animals, Whores, and Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter Vol.2
Another Thin Man (1939)
Bad News Bears, The (1976)
Bad Santa (2003)
Bank Dick, The (1940)
Barfly (1987)
Beer Barrel Polecats (1946)
Big Hangover, The (1950)
Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blotto (1930)
Booze Hangs High, The (1930)
Bottom of the Bottle, The (1956)
Breakfast with Hunter (2003)
Bromo and Juliet (1926)
Cat Ballou (1965)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Caught Plastered (1931)
Chimes at Midnight (a.k.a. Falstaff, 1965)
Cocktail (1988)
Comedy of Terrors, The (1964)
Country Girl, the (1954)
Cuckoo On A Choo Choo (1952)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Drunken Master (1978)
Drunken Master II (a.k.a. The Legend of Drunken Master, 1994)
Eastern College (2008)
Educating Rita (1983)
Everything Must Go (2010)
Face on the Bar Room Floor, The (1914)
Factotum (2005)
Fat City (1972)
Fatal Glass of Beer, The (1933)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee (1928)
Fixer Uppers, The (1935)
Free Lisl: Fear & Loathing in Denver (2006)
Free Soul, A (1931)
Grabbers (2012)
Great Man Votes, The (1939)
Great Profile, The (1940)
Her Majesty Love (1931)
High and Dizzy (1920)
His Favorite Pastime (1914)
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
Iceman Cometh, The (1973)
International House (1933)
Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
It's a Gift (1934)
It's the Old Army Game (1926)
Izzy & Moe (1985)
Johnny Eager (1942)
Kingpin (1996)
Last Flight, The (1931)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Live Ghost, The (1934)
Living Wake, The (2007)
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004)
Love at First Bite (1950)
Mabel's Married Life (1914)
Mabel's Strange Predicament (1914)
Man on the Flying Trapeze, The (1935)
Man with a Cloak, The (1951)
Master, The (2012)
Moonrunners (1975)
Moonshine (2000)
Moonshine County Express (1977)
Moonshine War, The (1970)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Mudhoney (1965)
My Favorite Year (1982)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Night Out, A (1915)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Nutty Professor, The (1963)
Old Fashioned Way, The (1934)
Old School (2003)
On the Bowery (1957)
One A.M. (1916)
Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
Pardon My Scotch (1935)
Pharmacist, The (1933)
Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
Pie-Eyed (1925)
Poppy (1936)
Public Enemy, The (1931)
Public Hero #1 (1935)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Remember Last Night? (1935)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Rio Rita (1929)
Road House (1948)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Rounders, The (1914)
Scram! (1932)
Secret of Santa Vittoria, The (1969)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Shakes the Clown (1991)
Shooting of Dan McGoo, The (1945)
Sideways (2004)
Sin of Harold Diddlebock (a.k.a. Mad Wednesday, 1947)
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End (1980)
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Still Making Moonshine (2008)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Superbad (2007)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Tango Tangles (a.k.a. Charlie's Recreation, 1914)
Them Thar Hills (1934)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Thunder Road (1958)
Thunder and Lightning (1977)
Trees Lounge (1996)
Under the Volcano (1984)
Verdict, The (1982)
W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
Wet Parade, The (1932)
What Drink Did (1909)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
When I Die (2005)
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Whisky Galore (a.k.a. Tight Little Island, 1949)
White Lightning (1973)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Wild Party, The (1975)
Withnail & I (1987)
World's End, The (2013)
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
You're Telling Me (1934)
Arthur Housman and Jack Norton, Character Drunks
Charlie Chaplin on His Centennial
Deadwood on its 10th Anniversary
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Review: A Free Soul (1931)
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USA/B&W-93m./Dir: Clarence Brown/Wr: Becky Gardiner & John Meehan, from a book by Adela Rogers St. John/Cast: Norma Shearer (Jan Ashe), Lionel Barrymore (Stephen Ashe), Clark Gable (Ace Wilfong), Leslie Howard (Dwight Winthrop), James Gleason (Eddie), and Lucy Beaumont (Grandma Ashe)
In response to a series of highly publicized Hollywood sex scandals, the U.S. film industry began a policy of self-censorship in July of 1934. Film historians have chosen to refer to movies produced between the advent of sound and the enforcement of this Motion Picture Production Code as "Pre-Code," because these pictures often display lascivious sexuality, drug and alcohol use, intense violence, and other salacious behavior that would be unthinkable a few years later. A Free Soul is a good example of a Pre-Code film, in that is flaunts frank depictions of pre-marital sex, racketeering, murder, and alcohol abuse.
Lionel Barrymore and Norma Shearer star as Stephen and Jan Ashe, an alcoholic attorney and his free-thinking daughter. Ashe's best years as a lawyer are behind him due to his drinking, but he scores a great success in his Johnny Cochran-like defense of gangster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable). When a soused and celebratory Ashe brings Ace to a family dinner party, he unintentionally sparks a scandalous affair between Ace and his daughter. When relations between the unwed lovers sour, Jan's former fiancé, Dwight Winthrop (Leslie Howard), takes the law into his own hands. Only the legal skills of Jan's pickled pater can save the rash Dwight.
Time has blunted the shock value of this moldy melodrama. The immodest suggestion of sex between Shearer and Gable (She went to his apartment and stayed—GASP!) is pretty tame by today's standards. The depiction of Barrymore's alcoholism, while frank for the period, is also not alarming in the eyes of present-day audiences. However, what do retain the power to shock are Norma Shearer's costumes (or lack thereof). In particular, she wears a thin, slip-like dress to a family dinner party and to Gable's apartment afterwards that clings to her body in a most immodest way, making it obvious that nothing is worn underneath. The nightgown is more indecent than anything Jean Harlow wore onscreen during the same era. Based upon this dress alone, the movie would have a hard time obtaining a PG-13 rating today.
While the sudsy story doesn't hold up well, A Free Soul holds a special place in film history for a few reasons. Firstly, Lionel Barrymore won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as the alky attorney, beginning a tradition of awards going hand-in-hand with portrayals of dipsomaniacs struggling against their obsession with the bottle. More importantly, Clark Gable made such an impression in his supporting turn in A Free Soul that it catapulted him to leading man status, where he soon proved to be the 1930s' top male sex symbol. Finally, the first pairing of Gable and Howard is sure to draw interest from fans of Gone with the Wind (Norma Shearer was also one of the many actress considered for the role of Scarlett).
A Free Soul is not great drama, but general audiences will find it worth their time based upon Norma Shearer's costume choices and Barrymore's boozing. Of course, for fans of Pre-Code flicks, it is more or less essential viewing.
Drinks Consumed--Champagne, gin martinis, whisky and soda, and unnamed liquor
Intoxicating Effects--Sneaking sips, slurred speech, hiccups, staggering, stumbling, bickering, and bar tossed
Potent Quotables--JAN: Tell me, Eddie. Has he been drinking?
EDDIE: Well…
JAN: A lot?
EDDIE: Well, it wouldn't be a lot for a camel or one of them things.
Video Availability--A Free Soul is available on DVD as a part of the TCM Archives - Forbidden Hollywood Collection Vol. 2 (Warner Home Video).
Similarly Sauced Cinema--For a more modern tale of a lawyer struggling with alcoholism, check out The Verdict (1982), featuring Paul Newman at his finest.
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2 (The Divorcee / A Free Soul / Three on a Match / Female / Night Nurse / Pre-Code Documentary)
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You're too hard on A Free Soul. It's very well directed and performed. Barrymore is spot-on as the attorney from the opening scene to the ending, and Gable is riveting--this guy has to be a star, one can't help thinking, and very soon after, he was!
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Lt. Gen. Chris Nowland, USAF deputy chief of staff for operations, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee's readiness panel on Nov. 9, 2017. Screenshot photo.
The Air Force has taken steps to address its readiness crisis by increasing monthly flight hours for fighter pilots and recruiting more maintainers, but the service still needs help so it can fly the missions it needs to, a top service official told lawmakers.
To address this, the Air Force has been spending additional funding to recruit 4,000 more maintainers to "accelerate the readiness recovery" and get planes back in the air, Nowland said.
The service's fighter pilot training hours are on the right track, with an air superiority pilot flying 15.6 hours per month and a general purpose attack pilot flying about 16 hours per month.
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Other career fields also face a shortfall. The service's most highly stressed career field is AC-130 gunners, but with stable funding, the Air Force expects to "close those gaps" and hit its recruitment goals by 2019, he said.


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So here we are again, as we go into the final round of the 2018 season and it's the last time the final round will be held at Sonoma for the foreseeable future, with IndyCar returning to Laguna Seca, which will host it next season.
April 1970, Sears Point hosted the 2nd round of the USAC Championship Car season, the Golden Gate 150, which was won by Dan Gurney in his AAR Eagle-Ford. This would be the first and last AOWR/IndyCar race for 35 years.
Performance Driving and eventually bought by Black Mountain Inc., which included Bondurant.
In 1981, When Black Mountain Inc., defaulted on payments, the track was bought back by Filmways Corp., and then subsequently sold at auction to a business group that included the 1964 NHRA top-fuel drag racing champion, Jack Williams. The track came under the control of Brenda Raceway Corp., when business partners Dr. Frank N. Scott Jr. and Harvey "Skip" Berg came on board. It was sold in 1996 to current owners Speedway Motorsports, Inc.
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Scott Dixon, 2007, 2014, 2015.
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The venue also hosts rounds for other series, including AMA Superbikes, NASCAR Sprint Cup, NHRA Championship Drag Racing, SCCA and WTCC, as well as IndyCar and can accommodate different layouts for each series.
to out-brake each other and set up a passing opportunity, before going into Turn 12. The exit off Turn 9, the Bus Stop, was widened by 10 feet on the driver's left, giving additional width to what was already a passing zone and Turn 7 became a u-turn similar to Turn 11B.
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Team Penske, Dallara DW12-Chevrolet Indy V6.
Going into the race with a three point lead over Dixon, Newgarden took pole, giving him the extra point. From the start Newdarden dominated, taking the lead. However, unlike Penske team mate and the current IndyCar champion Pagenaud, who had opted for a four stop strategy, Newgarden elected for three stops, which would be decisive.
For the first time in Sonoma Raceway history, the race was caution free, with Newgarden and Pagenaud each leading 41 of the 85 laps. Despite the lack of cautions, there were a few incidents as Kanaan and Sato both suffering punctures, with Sato finally retiring with engine issues as did his team mate Rossi. Otherwise, the race was largely processional.
battled around the track. Newgarden attempted a pass at the Turn 7 hairpin, to the inside of the tight right-hander but was unable to get past. Pagenaud then encountered slower traffic during the final seven laps, which bunched the field up and brought Newgarden within a few tenths of a second.
Pagenaud won his second and consecutive race at Sonoma, with Newgarden second, giving him the Driver's Championship. Power finished third. However, Dixon finished the race in fourth place, ahead of Castroneves thus preventing Penske from taking a clean sweep of the top four championship positions.
The championship was the 15th for Team Penske, with Newgarden and Pagenaud finishing 1st and 2nd in the Driver's Championship.
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Here's a break down of the points available in this weekend's season finale and Driver's Championship decider.
Nicely done on the lead in as always!
Down to 1 race and there can be only one! 4 mathematically still in the hunt, but seems to be down to Rossi and Dixie. Should be a good one!!
Newgarden and Power still have mathematic chances, but I admit that it's very unlikely that they catch Rossi and Dixon.
Can anyone perhaps tell me why they bypass the 90 degree nascar hairpin at the end of the lap? Personally, the penciled in hairpins (11A, 11B) that Indycar has been using since 2005/2012 are simply awkward and much too sharp.
It's been stated that it's due to a lack of run-off at the original Turn 11.
BJS, good opening. The one note I will make is that the 2005-07 layout didn't use the "Budweiser Bottleneck" (Turn 7A). I checked the coverage of the first few laps of the 2007, '08, and '11 races to confirm layouts and when layouts changed.
Dixon, Rossi near the top of P2 time sheet with about 30 minutes left. O'Ward just went to the P1 slot by .6 seconds. Race control is listing that time as on blacks, but I suspect it was on reds.
It was reported on Indycar radio that O'Ward's time (6th fastest of the day, and 2nd fastest in P2) was in fact done on blacks. Could result in some interesting strategy come race day.
FP3 Live Stream on youtube.
Seems that Rossi's team decided to save a new set of red tires rather than attempt to snag the pole. Not sure if that will play into the race or not. Andretti cars had good pace in qualifying, ending up 1, 4, 6, and 10.
Great job by O'Ward to qualify 5th. 2nd fastest Chevrolet, only topped by Newgarden.
Autosport didn't publish the full result, so this will have to do.
RH-R's on pole, pipping Dixon by 0.1322s, with Dixon blaming driver error. Nearest championship rival Rossi was 6th. Good to see O'Ward up in 5th for Harding Racing.
So thats that for Rossi then.
The race is on the 2nd formation lap, as NBCSN wait for NASCAR to break the record for the most FCYs in one race.
Is he allowed to shortcut like he did?
He dropped near the back, shortcut part of the track, went into the pits and is still only a minute behind?


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The next Asian Games will be held in Indonesia from mid-August to early September.
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BY TODD WILKINSON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY THOMAS MANGELSEN
The recovery of grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem ranks as one of the most resounding success stories in the history of wildlife conservation. In the early 19th century, an estimated 50,000 grizzlies roamed the American West. By the early 1970s, they had vanished from 98 percent of their historic range. By then, no remnant population was more famous than the bears of Yellowstone National Park. In 1975, concern that they might become extinct prompted the federal government to extend emergency protections to four distinct populations under the Endangered Species Act. Yet the Yellowstone population dwindled even further. At its nadir, only 136 bears remained.
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Chris Servheen, who presided over grizzly recovery for the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for more than 30 years, told me that he honestly thought grizzly bears might vanish. Yet before he retired in 2016, the Greater Yellowstone population had rebounded to more than 700. Today, grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and those in the massive Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem farther north are showing up in old haunts where they haven't been seen in more than a century.
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"I didn't know if we would ever get to where we are today with robust populations,"Servheen says. "I am confident they [bear populations] are healthy." Public attitudes toward grizzlies have evolved dramatically. The thrill of grizzly bear watching in national parks, especially the sight of bruins stalking elk calves, matches anything one might see with predators and prey on an African photo safari.
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As long as the bruins are pursuing wildlife and not cattle and sheep on private property, the acclaim and the attention are positively exciting for neighboring ranchers, too. But grizzlies know no boundaries. They are drawn to cattle pastures and hay fields. Just ask Shannun Rammel. In July, he stumbled upon a grizzly sleeping in an abandoned shed on his property outside Choteau. Thanks to some quick thinking by his wife — she jumped behind the wheel of their truck and startled the bear by gunning the rig directly at it — somehow the Northern Montanan survived. Barely. Bitten and bleeding, the 50-year-old had to be hospitalized.
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Matt Hogan, a senior official with USFWS who serves on a special grizzly bear management committee in the Lower 48, said that it is not his agency's prerogative to instruct the states on what to do. Yet he is sympathetic to the profound attachment many Americans have for grizzlies.
Hogan, who previously served as government affairs manager for Safari Club International, believes grizzlies can and should be responsibly hunted. He is quick to point out that should the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population ever fall below minimal levels, the bear can be relisted and control can be wrested away from the states again.
Paul Gilroy, a Safari Club member who lives near Grand Teton National Park, sees a commercial opportunity for his business. During an interview with the Jackson Hole News & Guide, the Wyoming outfitter told Mike Koshmrl that the sale of hunting tags for a few select opportunities to hunt grizzlies could raise money for state wildlife agencies. "It would be a very popular hunt, easily advertised and easily booked. We have some very large bears here, which would make for commendable trophies," Gilroy said.
That very scenario was halted in 2018. The year before, USFWS had removed the grizzly from the threatened species list. Sporting hunts were scheduled in Idaho and Wyoming. But a lawsuit by tribal entities and conservation groups derailed the hunting of 21 grizzlies in Wyoming just hours before it was slated to commence. US District Court Judge Dana Christensen subsequently restored Endangered Species Act protection.
Randy Newberg of Bozeman hosts the Sportsman Channel's Fresh Tracks with Randy Newberg. In addition, he oversees one of the most popular web podcasts devoted to hunting on public lands in the nation.
Years ago, Newberg killed a grizzly in Alaska, part of a dream hunt he shared with his 82-year-old grandfather. "It was the thrill of a lifetime," he says. But Newberg is not interested in hunting Greater Yellowstone grizzlies. Almost two decades ago, he served on a blue ribbon panel of citizens that examined whether the scientific goals used to gauge the recovery had been met. He concluded they had. Newberg supported the move to remove grizzlies from federal protection in 2017 just as he had in 2007 when the Greater Yellowstone population was temporarily delisted. But an earlier set of lawsuits that highlighted the lack of government analysis in assessing the loss of a key food source — nuts from whitebark pine trees caused by climate change — delayed delisting for another decade.
"I've told people that I am in favor of hunting being made available to states as a management tool, but I've also said the state wildlife agencies need to proceed with extreme caution," Newberg says. "There is a lot at stake for the credibility of the states in the public's eye. There is a lot at stake for the reputation of hunting. And, most importantly, there is a lot at stake for the grizzly."
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USFWS has gone back to the drawing board and is working closely with the State of Montana on next steps. Simultaneously, state wildlife officials are coordinating with private landowners to establish a land bridge between the Greater Yellowstone population and the Northern Continental Divide population.
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I was one of the 100-plus in attendance at the Alder Fire Hall. Many ranchers in attendance vented their frustrations.
"We thought the world would end when wolves were brought back. That didn't happen, but grizzlies bring much bigger challenges," one said. Rancher and state legislator Albert Sommers noted a substantial uptick in losses endured by many of his constituents, family-owned ranches. "The Upper Green River Cattle Association has seen its calf loss rates go from 2 percent in the early 1990s to 10 to 15 percent in recent years," Sommers said.
Sommers represents Sublette County in the Wyoming House of Representatives. All four of his grandparents homesteaded in the Green River Valley. He champions incentives aimed at making grizzlies and wolves less of a financial burden to landowners. He knows they are here to stay. He wishes he could make the same guarantee about ranchers who face many different threats to their survival.
"Compensation is the key to keeping ranchers on the landscape, even when wildlife managers and policymakers change bear management and philosophies," Sommers says.
"Regardless of the grizzly's legal status, private land will also figure prominently in the cause of American conservation and the future of the bear," says Roger Lang, former owner of the Sun Ranch in the Madison Valley of Montana.
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To its credit, the Western Landowners Alliance subsequently researched and published Reducing Conflict with Grizzly Bears, Wolves and Elk: A Western Landowners' Guide. And a special citizens committee is drafting a plan that will guide state grizzly management after delisting happens.
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Q: Create a N-gram model for custom vocabulary I want to create an N-Gram model which will not work with "English words". I have a custom vocabulary list like below:

vocabs = [ [0.364, 0.227, 0.376], [0.875, 0.785, 0.376], ........ ]

What I am trying to say is, each element in my vocabs list needs to be considered as a "word" by the N-Gram models. And my training dataset will have some numbers exactly in the same format of my vocabs list, like below:

training_data = [  [0.344, 0.219, 0.374], [0.846, 0.776, 0.376],  ........ ]

Note: In the example I wanted to show that, the training "words" (list of 3 number) are not exactly the same as the "words" in my vocabulary but they will be very close.
Now, my question is, can I build an N-Gram model which can be trained using the training data? And later, use that model to predict the probability of a  new "word" as it comes.
I am using python and can find a lot of N-Gram examples using the "nltk" library. But the problem is in most cases "English words" are used. As I am not very familiar with N-Grams, these examples made me confused. I will be very happy if anyone can answer my questions and/or point out some tutorials to learn N-Grams in general (not specific to NLP).
Thanks.
Edit:
Just to simplify the question, I will try to explain it in a different way:
I have a vocabulary like below:

vocabs = [v1, v2, v3, ........vn]

I also have two sequence generator(SG). Both of them generates a sequence of words from my vocabulary.
My goal is to predict from the streaming data: which generator is currently generating the sequence(words).
Now I want to build two N-gram models(one for each SG) using my labeled training data(I already have some labeled data from the SGs). Finally, when I feed my streaming data into the models and select the probable SG by comparing predictions from the N-gram models. Just to be clear if the N-gram model for SG1 gives higher probability than the N-gram model for SG2, I will decide that the current streaming data is generated by SG1.
Hope the explanation helps to understand my concern. I really appreciate the effort to answer this question.
Note: If you know any other models that can solve this problem well (better than N-gram model), please mention them.
Thanks.

A: Ok, I'm not sure of what you want to do exactly. But let's try anyway.
First how do N-gram works:
N-grams are -quite simple- predictors of the probability of a sequence. Since sentences are just sequences of words and words are just a sequence of characters, it generally works great for strings:
Problem: you have a list of letters and you want to find out what would be the next letter in the sequence.
letterSequence = ['a', 'b', None]

If you have a bunch of letters in sequence, you can take note of what are those sequences:
training_data = ['a', 'b', 'c',
             'a', 'b', 'c',
             'a', 'b', 'd',
             'a', 'b', 'f',
             'b', 'c', 'd']

At first glance, you can see that the probability of having a sequence 'a','b','c' are twice greater than the probability of having 'a','b','d' or 'a','b','f'.
What we're going to do is to count how many times a same sequence appears in training_data and select the one that appears more often.
def makeNestedDict(aDict, listOfKeys):
    if len(listOfKeys) == 0:
        if aDict != {}: return aDict
        return 0
    if listOfKeys[0] not in aDict:
        aDict[listOfKeys[0]] = {}
    aDict[listOfKeys[0]] = makeNestedDict(aDict[listOfKeys[0]], listOfKeys[1:])
    return aDict

def makeCoreferenceDict(ressource):
    #we'll use 3-grams but we could have chosen any n for n-grams
    ngramDict = {}
    index = 0
    #we make sure we won't go further than the length of the list
    while (index+2) < len(ressource):
        k1 = ressource[index]
        k2 = ressource[index+1]
        k3 = ressource[index+2]
        ngramDict = makeNestedDict(ngramDict, [k1, k2, k3])
        ngramDict[k1][k2][k3] += 1 #counting
        index += 1
    return ngramDict

def predict(unkSequence, ngramDict):
    import operator
    corefDict = ngramDict[unkSequence[0]][unkSequence[1]]
    return max(corefDict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))

############################################
ngramDict = makeCoreferenceDict(training_data)
#the most common letter that follows 'a', 'b' is...
predict(letterSequence, ngramDict)
>>> ('c', 2) #... is 'c' and it appears twice in the data

You can also get a prediction score instead of getting the most common element by replacing the line (in the makeCoreferenceDict function):
ngramDict[k1][k2][k3] += 1 #counting

with:
ngramDict[k1][k2][k3] += 1.0/float(len(ressource)) #add to the score

so:
def showScore(unkSequence, ngramDict):
    return ngramDict[unkSequence[0]][unkSequence[1]]

############################################
ngramDict = makeCoreferenceDict(training_data)
#the most common letter that follows 'a', 'b' is...
showScore(letterSequence, ngramDict)
>>> {'c': 0.13333333333333333, 'd': 0.06666666666666667, 'f': 0.06666666666666667}

NOW the n-gram method depends on having a finite set of elements (characters, words, natural numbers, etc.). Now, in YOUR example, "vocabs" and "training_data" have barely any numbers in common. And I think that what you really need, is to get a distance score between your words. I'm guessing that because of what you said:

In the example I wanted to show that, the training "words" (list of 3 number) are not exactly the same as the "words" in my vocabulary but they will be very close.

In that case it gets a little too complicated to show it here but you might want to measure the distance between
each number of each element in "vocabs"
and
each number of each element in each sequence in "training_data"
and then compare them and choose the smaller score.
If that's not the answer to your question, please reformulate or give us more examples.
In any case, good luck with that.

A: In that case, you can definitely use n-grams.
First let me make sure I understood:
You have a vocabulary:

vocabs = [v0, v1, v2, v3, ........vn]

and 2 sequence generators who take elements from your vocab and return a list of vocab sequences:

sg1 = [v0, v1, v2, v1, v3]
  sg2 = [v2, v4, v6, v2, v8]

Now, if I understand correctly, you want to use n-grams to artificially replicate and augment your sg1 and sg2 outputs:

ngramSg1 = [v0, v1, v3, v0, v1, v2, v1, v2, ...]
  ngramSg2 = [v2, v4, v6, v2, v8, v2, v6, v2, ...]

Then, you want to use an ML model to determine from what is the origin of the n-grams output (either SG1 or SG2). Am I right? Am I circling down on it?
If it's like what I described, then you should be able to use the code I wrote on the previous answer or any n-gram library you want. NEVERTHELESS, if I understood correctly, your vocabulary is made of lists of numbers and not individual objects. If that's the case then you probably won't find any library who can handle that. It's way too specific. You might have to code your own version of n-gram-based sequence generator.
However, your case looks kind of familiar to word embeddings (which are basically language processing algorithms that use vectors as a representation on words). If you don't already know about them you might want to check out gensim's word2vec, doc2vec or fastText and either adopt them or adapt them.

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You can win the game in several different ways, but in regular bingo it's usually by filling all numbers in a row, diagonal or in a column.
So it takes at least five numbers and some luck to get b-i-n-g-o.
Today there are two popular main forms of bingo, 75-ball and 90-ball games. US often plays 75-ball (5x5 card) while UK play 90-ball (9x3 card).
Since bingo was invented 1929, it has also been evolving into a multitude of variations and derivatives with different rules and ways to play the game like Shotgun bingo, U-Pick'Em bingo, Death bingo, Bonanza bingo, Lingo, Keno and more, all with its own ways of winning the game.
Some have intricate patterns and some even demands that the whole board is filled while there are some games that on the other hand give prizes for NOT filling any pattern or NOT getting any number right.
It is therefore important that players read the terms and conditions and try to learn the rules of the bingo games before trying them out.
It's important to know that one doesn't need to acquire a special set of skills in order to play online bingo. The principle stays the same as with land-based bingo halls. The difference lies in the daubing process – with land-based bingo there is a person picking numbers out of a bingo machine and the player gets to mark the cards, whereas in online bingo the games uses a random number generator and the system automatically dabs your tickets. Certain software will allow you to mark off your cards yourself, but in most cases it is done via 'auto dab'.
To play bingo online one needs to find a bingo site or a casino site with a bingo section, register an account and make a deposit. Naturally, the next step is to pick a bingo game out of the ones available. At certain websites you'll be able to choose among various bingo rooms, various games and various stakes, so it's only a matter of your personal preference and the size of your budget, Buy a ticket or multiple tickets and wait for the game to start. You can make use of certain features such as chat windows, and enjoy 'best card sorting' for enhanced game flow.
Auto-daub or "Catch-up" is used on online bingo and means that numbers are automatically crossed / marked for you. In other words, to make things simpler players do not need to mark the numbers drawn on the bingo card.
Some online bingo games can have Auto-purchase which means that bingo cards are purchased automatically for each new session.
"Best Card Highlighting" and "Best card sorting" are functions that some online bingo games have and that can make playing the game simpler by sorting and highlighting the bingo cards that are closest to bingo!
A standard 90 ball bingo ticket contains 27 squares organised into 3 rows and 9 columns; it has 15 numbers total, 5 per row. Players are allowed to purchase up to 6 cards per game and can receive payouts for wins on one line, two lines or three lines, which is the fullhouse payout. 90 ball bingo is known as a slow paced variation of the game, as opposed to 30 ball bingo which is also known as 'speed' bingo.
80 ball bingo is played with tickets containing 16 numbers arranged in a square. Here, the player has 4 different game options: single line, any line + house, any line + column + house and the fullhouse/pattern.
In a game of 75 ball bingo there are 24 numbers on a card; they are laid out in a square and the middle position is deemed the free square (a star). The player is allowed to purchase up to 6 strips of cards per round where one strip has 3 tickets. Prizes are awarded for completing lines or patterns on the ticket.
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Solar's woes minimal in comparison
By Lanny Sinkin
Guest OpEd – San Antonio Express-News
Proponents of nuclear and fossil fuels are claiming all energy sources, including solar, have risks. ("All forms of energy have risk," Business, March 26). When you delve into the true nature of those risks, there really is no comparison.
There is no solar accident that even begins to approach the destructiveness of a nuclear reactor meltdown. Solar relies on a reactor that is perfectly placed — 93 million miles from Earth.
A major solar spill is what we call a nice day, hardly comparable to the Deepwater Horizon killing 11 people and producing a massive release of oil.
Replacing fossil fuel-generated electricity with solar dramatically reduces green house gases and helps to mitigate the worst effects of climate instability — a benefit, not a risk.
To compare solar risks to the risks from continued reliance on nuclear and fossil fuels is not rational, let alone logical.
The solar risks identified in the article are that "solar is expensive" and "hard to deploy at the necessary scale."
Solar costs are already below the price of proposed new nuclear projects. The price of nuclear projects will almost certainly increase as a result of the Japan catastrophe. The real cost of the Japanese nuclear plants will now include the billions of dollars spent to contain the meltdowns and deal with the aftermath.
Southern California Edison chose a future based on solar, rather than natural gas, for economic reasons. Solar costs are also within the competitive range with coal when the cost of building a coal plant is included. If coal had to pay for its health, environmental and climate-change damage, coal would not compete with solar.
As to installing enough to meet demand, I asked an engineer involved in developing the San Diego solar plan to estimate the amount of solar we could put on rooftops in San Antonio. His back-of-the-envelope estimate was 4,000 megawatts. By way of comparison, the new Spruce 2 coal plant is 750 megawatts.
The sidebar to the article says the best locations for solar "are far from population areas, so they require costly transmission infrastructure." While solar potential to the west is higher, we don't need to go there. San Antonio rooftops are highly productive and feed into the existing transmission infrastructure.
The sidebar says "solar can't be stored (although solar heat can for a while)." There is a concentrated solar plant being built in Spain that heats up an oil that stores enough heat to generate electricity for 15 hours after the sun goes down. There is ice storage, compressed air, pumped water, flywheels and a host of other storage technologies rapidly maturing or already in use.
The sidebar then gets ridiculous by saying, "Turbines and panels pose a threat to birds." There are problems with wind turbines killing birds and bats. We know of no recorded instance of a solar panel harming a bird in any way.
San Antonio can believe the spin and reluctantly move forward on solar. Or we can follow the bold leadership coming from CPS Energy and make San Antonio the national leader in solar.
We can build as much solar as we have the will to build. The real risk would be a failure to fully embrace our solar potential.
Lanny Sinkin is executive director of Solar San Antonio.
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Robert Huston McFarland emigrated with his family from what is now Northern Ireland and arrived in Melbourne on board the "Albatross" on October 12 1849.
He was a lawyer and became the solictor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and he died in 1878.
His sons Archibald*, Robert, and Curtis went to school in Hotham and were also home schooled in the family home.
They either had a hand in establishing the Blues, and, or was a player.
Robert "Bot" Huston(?) McFarland, solicitor, was one of the founders of the Carlton Football Club, and the first President 1864 and 1865.
There is very little information on Carlton team lists prior to 1868.
The Argus has McFarland named in the Carlton side to play Geelong on Monday 25th. May.
Named in squad of 24 to play Melbourne on the Melbourne ground.
Named in squad to play Emerald Hill at Emerald Hill.
Named in Squad of 24 to play University at Royal Park.
McFarland named in the 20 that played Melbourne at the Melbourne ground.
McFarland named in squad of 25 to play South Yarra at South Yarra.
McFarland played in the opening match of 1869 against Geelong at Royal Park.
Robert passed away of heart disease at his brother's house in Drummond Street Carlton. McFarland died 5 days short of his 30th. birthday.
Robert McFarland scored the first century for the Carlton Cricket Club.
Robert "Bob" McFarland played cricket for Victoria against N.S.W. in 1870.
See Cricket Archives web site.
A founder of the Carlton Cricket Club and the Carlton Football Club.
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A former scout for the San Diego Padres, DeGruchy is working toward a Masters in Sports Law and Business at Arizona State University with an eye on a future executive position.
A Peruvian immigrant, DeGruchy spent her early childhood learning both the English language and the game of baseball. She came to this country with only her family and an ambition to prosper.
DeGruchy has spent her entire life investing in baseball. Whether she was practicing with her brothers at the local field or doing in-depth analysis of their recorded lessons, DeGruchy's early dedication to the sport helped her to build a strong foundation in the game.
Today, she continues her in-depth analysis of the game at ASU. No ASU professor has inspired her more than former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.
Nowhere is the community aspect of baseball more apparent than in DeGruchy's friendship with Isabella Picard, a former softball player at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Picard says she is inspired by DeGruchy's drive to fight for her career goals.
DeGruchy credits much of her professional success to networking.
DeGruchy has found that connection with Robin Wallace, current scout for the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau and former executive director of the North American Women's Baseball League. Wallace has acted as an advisor toward DeGruchy, encouraging her professional career.
Wallace has set a powerful precedent for mentorship among women in baseball. She has left a major impact on DeGruchy, instilling in her a greater level of professional confidence.
Now, DeGruchy preaches a message of encouragement not just for women in baseball, but in all professions.
"Always encourage other females. I think that's such a problem," DeGruchy says. "Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something."
DeGruchy tries to live the advice she preaches. She has overcome both economic and gender related adversity, and she has not let her circumstances keep her from success.


I recently needed some more cleaning wipes, and grabbed a two pack of Great Value disinfecting wipes when I went to Walmart.
I confess I was a bit leery of trying any new brand after my recent debacle trying the natural disinfecting wipes from Scotch Brite and Seventh Generation that I shared with you earlier, since they both stunk up the whole house!
Therefore, this time I went with something more similar to the wipes I'm already quite familiar with, those from Clorox and Lysol. However, as I looked at all the varieties on the shelves I was struck by how very expensive they all are.
Then, I noticed the Great Value brand, in the lemon scent, and how much cheaper it was than the name brand products and decided, what the heck, I'll try them.
I've had some great success with several other cleaning and laundry products from Walmart so I wasn't too worried to try them.
Turns out I was right not to be concerned. These wipes are just like the ones from Clorox, except the lower price tag. In fact, if you placed them in the brand name's' container and didn't tell me, I don't believe I would have noticed the difference.
as you close the flap at the top after each use), and they dispense easily enough from the top of the container.
I personally prefer lemon scent to "fresh scent" (which is the other scent available), but that is personal preference only. I didn't think the scent was overpowering in any way, which I appreciate.
We use wipes mainly in the kitchen or bathroom to wipe up spills or sticky, smelly messes, and they did their job for us.
I definitely suggest if you're trying to save money, and don't have a coupon that makes the name brands less expensive, to try store brand products.
Another reviewer and I both shared our Up & Up brand wipes review here (they are the store brand made by Target) and we liked them too.
I'd love to hear from even more readers who've tried any brand of these wipes, sharing what they thought of them. You can share your review here, or read other reviews of other brands already shared.
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package org.apache.geode.internal.cache.eviction;

import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;

import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.BucketRegion;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.RegionEntry;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.RegionEntryContext;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.versions.RegionVersionVector;
import org.apache.geode.internal.i18n.LocalizedStrings;
import org.apache.geode.internal.lang.SystemPropertyHelper;
import org.apache.geode.internal.logging.LogService;
import org.apache.geode.internal.logging.LoggingThreadGroup;
import org.apache.geode.internal.logging.log4j.LocalizedMessage;
import org.apache.geode.internal.logging.log4j.LogMarker;

/**
 * LRUListWithAsyncSorting holds the eviction list, and the behavior for maintaining the list and
 * determining the next entry to be removed. Each EntriesMap that supports LRU holds one of these.
 * Evicts are always done from the head and assume that it is the least recent entry unless if is
 * being used by a transaction or is already evicted in which case it is removed from the list and
 * the next item is evicted. Adds are always done to the end of the list and should not be marked
 * recently used. An async scanner runs periodically (how often TBD), head to tail, removing entries
 * that have been recently used, marking them as not recently used, and adding them back to the
 * tail. Removes may unlink entries from the list.
 */
public class LRUListWithAsyncSorting extends AbstractEvictionList {

  private static final Logger logger = LogService.getLogger();

  private static final Optional<Integer> EVICTION_SCAN_MAX_THREADS = SystemPropertyHelper
      .getProductIntegerProperty(SystemPropertyHelper.EVICTION_SCAN_MAX_THREADS);

  private static final ExecutorService SINGLETON_EXECUTOR = createExecutor();

  private static final int DEFAULT_EVICTION_SCAN_THRESHOLD_PERCENT = 25;

  private static final int DEFAULT_MAX_EVICTION_ATTEMPTS = 10;

  private final AtomicInteger recentlyUsedCounter = new AtomicInteger();

  private final double scanThreshold;
  private final int maxEvictionAttempts;

  private Future<?> currentScan;

  private final ExecutorService executor;

  private static ExecutorService createExecutor() {
    int threads = EVICTION_SCAN_MAX_THREADS.orElse(0);
    if (threads < 1) {
      threads = Math.max((Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() / 4), 1);
    }
    final LoggingThreadGroup group =
        LoggingThreadGroup.createThreadGroup("LRUListWithAsyncSorting Threads", logger);
    ThreadFactory threadFactory = new ThreadFactory() {
      private final AtomicInteger threadId = new AtomicInteger();

      public Thread newThread(final Runnable command) {
        Thread thread = new Thread(group, command,
            "LRUListWithAsyncSortingThread" + this.threadId.incrementAndGet());
        thread.setDaemon(true);
        return thread;
      }
    };
    return Executors.newFixedThreadPool(threads, threadFactory);
  }

  LRUListWithAsyncSorting(EvictionController controller) {
    this(controller, SINGLETON_EXECUTOR, DEFAULT_MAX_EVICTION_ATTEMPTS);
  }

  LRUListWithAsyncSorting(EvictionController controller, ExecutorService executor,
      int maxEvictionAttempts) {
    super(controller);
    this.scanThreshold = calculateScanThreshold();
    this.executor = executor;
    this.maxEvictionAttempts = maxEvictionAttempts;
  }

  private double calculateScanThreshold() {
    Optional<Integer> configuredThresholdPercent = SystemPropertyHelper
        .getProductIntegerProperty(SystemPropertyHelper.EVICTION_SCAN_THRESHOLD_PERCENT);

    int thresholdPercent =
        configuredThresholdPercent.orElse(DEFAULT_EVICTION_SCAN_THRESHOLD_PERCENT);
    if (thresholdPercent < 0 || thresholdPercent > 100) {
      thresholdPercent = DEFAULT_EVICTION_SCAN_THRESHOLD_PERCENT;
    }

    return (double) thresholdPercent / 100;
  }

  @Override
  public void clear(RegionVersionVector regionVersionVector, BucketRegion bucketRegion) {
    super.clear(regionVersionVector, bucketRegion);
    recentlyUsedCounter.set(0);
  }

  /**
   * Remove and return the Entry that is considered least recently used.
   */
  @Override
  public EvictableEntry getEvictableEntry() {
    int evictionAttempts = 0;
    for (;;) {
      final EvictionNode evictionNode = unlinkHeadEntry();

      if (evictionNode == null) {
        // hit the end of the list
        return null;
      }

      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.LRU_CLOCK_VERBOSE)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.LRU_CLOCK_VERBOSE, "lru considering {}", evictionNode);
      }

      if (!isEvictable(evictionNode)) {
        continue;
      }

      if (evictionNode.isRecentlyUsed() && evictionAttempts < maxEvictionAttempts) {
        evictionAttempts++;
        evictionNode.unsetRecentlyUsed();
        appendEntry(evictionNode);
        continue;
      }

      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.LRU_CLOCK_VERBOSE)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.LRU_CLOCK_VERBOSE, LocalizedMessage
            .create(LocalizedStrings.NewLRUClockHand_RETURNING_UNUSED_ENTRY, evictionNode));
      }
      if (evictionNode.isRecentlyUsed()) {
        scanIfNeeded();
        getStatistics().incGreedyReturns(1);
      }
      return (EvictableEntry) evictionNode;
    }
  }

  private synchronized void scanIfNeeded() {
    if (!scanInProgress()) {
      recentlyUsedCounter.set(0);
      currentScan = executor.submit(this::scan);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Determine who/when should invoke scan. Maybe when 10% of the RegionEntries have been dirtied by
   * {@link RegionEntry#setRecentlyUsed(RegionEntryContext)}.
   *
   * Determine when to stop scanning.
   */
  void scan() {
    EvictionNode evictionNode;
    do {
      synchronized (this) {
        evictionNode = head.next();
      }
      int nodesToIterate = size();
      while (evictionNode != null && evictionNode != tail && nodesToIterate > 0) {
        nodesToIterate--;
        // No need to sync on evictionNode here. If the bit is set the only one to clear it is
        // us (i.e. the scan) or evict/remove code. If either of these happen then this will be
        // detected by next and previous being null.
        if (evictionNode.isRecentlyUsed()) {
          evictionNode.unsetRecentlyUsed();
          evictionNode = moveToTailAndGetNext(evictionNode);
        } else {
          synchronized (this) {
            evictionNode = evictionNode.next();
          }
        }
      }
      // null indicates we tried to scan past a node that was concurrently removed.
      // In that case we need to start at the beginning.
    } while (evictionNode == null);
  }

  @Override
  public void incrementRecentlyUsed() {
    int recentlyUsedCount = recentlyUsedCounter.incrementAndGet();
    if (hasThresholdBeenMet(recentlyUsedCount)) {
      scanIfNeeded();
    }
  }

  int getRecentlyUsedCount() {
    return recentlyUsedCounter.get();
  }

  private boolean scanInProgress() {
    return currentScan != null && !currentScan.isDone();
  }

  private boolean hasThresholdBeenMet(int recentlyUsedCount) {
    return size() >= maxEvictionAttempts
        && (double) recentlyUsedCount / size() >= this.scanThreshold;
  }

  private synchronized EvictionNode moveToTailAndGetNext(EvictionNode evictionNode) {
    EvictionNode next = evictionNode.next();
    if (next != null && next != tail) {
      EvictionNode previous = evictionNode.previous();
      next.setPrevious(previous);
      previous.setNext(next);
      evictionNode.setNext(tail);
      tail.previous().setNext(evictionNode);
      evictionNode.setPrevious(tail.previous());
      tail.setPrevious(evictionNode);
    }
    return next;
  }
}

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Shoghaken Folk Ensemble
The Shoghaken Folk Ensemble was founded in 1995 in Yerevan. The group uses only traditional Armenian instruments, maintaining an authentic sound with the duduk, zurna, dhol, kanon, kamancha, shvi, and other instruments. Singers Hasmik Harutyunyan and Aleksan Harutyunyan are known throughout Armenia, the former Soviet Union, and Europe for their unique interpretation of Armenian folk and ashoughagan (troubadour) music.
In 1995, Shoghaken recorded folk music for Celestial Harmonies in the Music of Armenia series. The ensemble also had success in the Armenia Festival in Die, southern France, representing Armenia in the folk music tradition.
Shoghaken was involved in several recordings in 2001. In May, Shakeh Avanessian, of London, and Laura Shannon, of Scotland, recorded an album of Armenian dance melodies in Yerevan. Avanessian and Shannon are professional dancers who present traditional dance in concerts and seminars in Europe and the Middle East. The recording, Gorani: Traditional Dances from the Armenian Homeland, is named for "Gorani," a song and dance from the Moush region of Historic Armenia.
In August, Shoghaken recorded an album of Armenian folk music for Traditional Crossroads (see Recommended Links). The recording included Armenian folk, ashoughagan, patriotic, and epic songs. The CD, entitled Armenia Anthology, was released in May 2002.
In search of authentic Armenian folk music for the soundtrack of Ararat, his film about the Armenian Genocide, Atom Egoyan traveled to Yerevan in December of 2001 with composer Mychael Danna. They found and recorded Shoghaken, whose inspired work has made them Armenia's premier folk music ensemble. In addition to drawing on their extensive repertoire of Armenian folk music, the musicians of Shoghaken were successfully able to improvise according to the needs of the movie — the recording studio becoming a creative atmosphere in which the director and composer conveyed the style and feel of Ararat to the group. Through ensemble pieces and improvisations, Shoghaken was able to exert a deep and positive influence on Egoyan's important film. The members of the group were also pleased to play a part in telling the story of the Genocide.
Shoghaken was also invited to the United States by world-renowned cellist, Yo Yo Ma, to perform at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. To see photos and read more about the festival, click here. In July 2003, three members of the group traveled to Estonia to participate in the Viljandi Folk Festival in Viljandi, Estonia. Vocalist Hasmik Harutyunyan was accompanied by musicians Levon Tevanyan and Karine Hovhannisyan in two well-attended concerts.
In February 2004, Traditional Crossroads released two more Shoghaken Ensemble recordings: Armenian Lullabies, a haunting collection of lullabies from Historic Armenia featuring Hasmik Harutyunyan and the musicians of Shoghaken; and Traditional Dances of Armenia, an instrumental and vocal presentation of traditional dances of the Armenian homeland. Official presentation of the CDs coincided with the ensemble's 2004 U.S. tour, arranged by Harold Hagopian. Both CDs are available for purchase at Traditional Crossroads. In December, Shoghaken participated in "Armenian Culture Days," a celebration of music, performance, and art held in Sharja, in the United Arab Emirates.
In February 2005, the group performed in Montreal at the Strictly Mundial music conference. While in Canada, Hasmik Harutyunyan and Gevorg Dabaghyan were interviewed at the Palais de Congress for the Canadian Broadcasting Network's widely distributed "Global Village" radio program. In August, Shoghaken appeared in Concert at the Cascade, a Yerevan event sponsored by the Cafesjian Foundation and filmed for the international Armenian television audience.
In the first of several events scheduled for 2006, Shoghaken performed in Paris at the prestigious Theatre de la Ville in February. To see photos and read more about the event, which was filmed for worldwide broadcast, click here. For a French-language review, video, interview, gallery, and music samples, click here. In June, the group participated in the Armenia Year in Russia festivities at the St. Petersburg Palaces classical music festival. This was followed by a trip to Rudolstadt, Germany, in July for performances, workshops, and a radio program as part of the Dance and Folk Music Festival.
In 2008, Shoghaken gave concerts and workshops during their second major tour of the US and Canada. Organized by Harold Hagopian of Traditional Crossroads, the tour coincided with the release of the ensemble's latest CD, Shoghaken Ensemble: Music From Armenia.
On February 7, 2009, Shoghaken Ensemble: Music From Armenia was awarded the best folk recording of 2008 at the National Music Awards in Yerevan, Armenia. On September 9, 2009, Shoghaken presented a concert at the Aram Khachtryan Concert Hall in Yerevan. Other concert and festival appearances planned for 2009 include Istanbul, Jerusalem, Australia, and Slovakia.
On March 12, 2010, Shoghaken performed a concert at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as part of "Armenia Days in Slovenia." Hasmik Harutyunyan also presented workshops of Armenian folk and dance for the Emanat Institute in Ljubljana.
In March 2011, Shoghaken musicians Hasmik Harutyunyan, Aleksan Harutyunyan, Gevorg Dabaghyan, Vardan Baghdasaryan, and Grigor Takushyan traveled to the Netherlands and Belgium for a three-concert tour. The many in attendance were treated to traditional folk songs and dances from the Armenian Highland, as well as troubadour songs and Armenian mugham played on duduk and kamancha.
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Чарлз Діллон Перрайн (;  — ) — американо-аргентинський астроном.

Біографія

Народився в Стенбенвіллі (штат Огайо, США), в 1893—1909 працював у Лікській обсерваторії, в 1909—1936 — директор Аргентинської національної обсерваторії в Кордові.

Основні праці в області спостережної астрономії. Виконав багато спостережень комет. Протягом 1895—1902 відкрив 9 нових комет, зокрема, комету 18D/Перрайна—Мркоса і першим поспостерігав появу трьох відомих періодичних комет. Під час повернення періодичної комети Галлея в 1910 отримав велику серію фотографій комети і провів детальні вимірювання її положення і яскравості. У 1904 відкрив на фотографіях, отриманих з Крослеївського рефлектора, шостий супутник Юпітера, нині відомий як Гімалія, а в 1905 — сьомий супутник, названий Елара. Виявив розширення світної області у міжзоряній хмарі навколо Нової Персея 1901 при проходженні світлової хвилі через хмару після спалаху. Отримав перші оцінки кількості спіральних туманностей і показав, що воно дуже велике. У 1901 очолював експедицію Лікської обсерваторії на острів Суматра для спостереження повного сонячного затемнення, а в 1914 брав участь в аналогічній експедиції в Крим.

Премія Ж.Ж.Ф.Лаланда Паризької АН (1897).

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Астрономи США
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Лауреати премії Лаланда з астрономії
Аргентинські астрономи
Відкривачі комет
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Французи США
Американські емігранти до Аргентини

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